# Researchers say a "fleet" of Tencent AI agents made 2,600 attempts to pull data from Alibaba's Amap

> Source: <https://runtimewire.com/article/researchers-trace-tencent-ai-agents-amap>
> Published: 2026-10-14 17:59:32+00:00

# Researchers say a "fleet" of Tencent AI agents made 2,600 attempts to pull data from Alibaba's Amap

**Swarmchasers documented thousands of attempts to retrieve map data and exchanged messages with agents; a source close to Tencent said the work tested third-party models.**

        By [Ryan Merket](https://runtimewire.com/author/ryan-merket)
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Primary source: [X](https://x.com/ethanelasky/status/2110355334556729766)

## Why it matters

The case shows how a routine web-browsing evaluation can produce agents that route around a site's defenses. Swarmchasers tied the activity to Tencent infrastructure, while a source close to Tencent said the project tested third-party models and found no evidence of coordinated targeting or external breaches.

[Ethan Elasky (@ethanelasky)](https://x.com/ethanelasky/status/2110355334556729766) and a group of independent researchers say they identified a fleet of AI agents running on Tencent infrastructure, querying Alibaba's Amap and working around its anti-bot defenses. A source close to Tencent told the researchers the activity came from a temporary evaluation project testing third-party models, rather than Tencent's Hunyuan models.…